The gentleman's stable directory; or, modern system of farriery. : comprehending the present entire improved mode of practice: likewise all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies ... interspersed with occasional remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others. Also directions for feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase. To which are now added, useful instructions for buying and selling; with an appendix, containing experimental observations upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, Bart. / by William Taplin.

  • William Taplin
Date:
1788
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Credit: The gentleman's stable directory; or, modern system of farriery. : comprehending the present entire improved mode of practice: likewise all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies ... interspersed with occasional remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others. Also directions for feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase. To which are now added, useful instructions for buying and selling; with an appendix, containing experimental observations upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, Bart. / by William Taplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    from a repofitory equally rare with a capital prize in the lottery. • ' ' In the midlT of thefe 'very neceffary confi- derations it muft be remembered fuch heb- domadal Tales are not without their acknow- ledged conveniencies ; for although they are by no means calculated to buy at, they are moft admirably adapted tor fellijjg. Here you may, in compliance with cujlom and the full force of fajlnon, get rid of the blind, lame, rejltve, broken winded, fplented, fpavined, or glandered horfe, without remorfe or fear of punifhment. The feller, whether a ncmiral gentleman without ho- nour, or the dealer without principle, is entitled to every degree of duplicity he can bring into ~ pradice they lay equal claim to the privilege of obliquely puffing their own horfes (as ftan- ders-by praifing their unequalled qualifica- tions), and bidding for them with an affeded enthufiafm, thereby inducing the unwary to proceed in the purchafe very much beyond the intripfic value. The dupe becomes in a ffiort time convinced of the bubble, and is in poffeflion of no confolation but the' law of re- taliation, by a ie;:etit]on of transfer 5 neceffity copapeb him to fell at the J(ime or a Jimildr market